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...President Bush flew to Berlin for the start of a weeklong diplomatic tour, White House chief of staff Andrew Card briefed the President in his private office aboard Air Force One. But Card wasn't there to prepare Bush for his meetings in Europe. Instead, he presented the President with a 1.5-in.-thick binder of eight policy options for reorganizing the Federal Government to guard against terrorist threats. Included was an idea Bush had resisted for months: the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the first new Cabinet-level department in more than a decade. Card walked Bush...
...Padilla got some instruction in bomb-making, and some cash. And al-Qaeda leaders reportedly discussed with him schemes ranging from "dirty bombs" to blowing up gas stations - discussions which some captive terrorist leaders appear to have shared with U.S. agents. So Padilla flew back to Chicago under U.S. surveillance, and into the waiting arms of the FBI. That was a month ago; the story broke this week because the authorities had to move him out of the criminal justice system and into military detention, for lack of evidence (at least evidence which the government would be willing to reveal...
...Continental and its rivals, of course, the biggest challenge is using these come-ons to win back business travelers, who traditionally flew on short notice and paid full fares, often in the $2,000 range. A Business Travel Council survey of 184 groups that, combined, spend $2.9 billion a year on travel revealed in April that business travel is down 20% this year. Even worse, B.T.C. chairman Kevin Mitchell notes that 60% of the companies plan to cut further. Frustrated by ticket prices that skyrocketed 74% between 1996 and 2000, businesspeople are eliminating nonessential trips, hunting for last-minute cheap...
...rest of the day at Harvard was marked by an unusual, eerie quiet. Students crowded silently before TVs in dining halls and rooms, venturing outside only to flinch whenever planes flew overhead...
...come before: John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown of Chicago, who slew 33; Gerald Stano from Daytona Beach, Fla., who murdered 41; Randy Kraft in California, who was convicted of 16 murders. Reichert contacted police departments around the country that had dealt with serial killers, and in 1984 he flew to Florida to talk to Ted Bundy on death row. Bundy had been found guilty of killing 22 victims. Says Reichert: "Just to sit across from him and shake hands sent chills. You think, 'Just how many people's lives have these hands squeezed...